From 570e0b80121558da901d40df18e3e9432c70816e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 20:36:23 +0200
Subject: Add a chapter to illustrate examples of boot prompt lines with
 preceeding options

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 en/appendix/preseed.xml | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

(limited to 'en/appendix')

diff --git a/en/appendix/preseed.xml b/en/appendix/preseed.xml
index d7570d6b3..b2d12ac15 100644
--- a/en/appendix/preseed.xml
+++ b/en/appendix/preseed.xml
@@ -570,6 +570,27 @@ always need to specify a value as well: for example,
 
   </sect2>
   
+  <sect2 id="preseed-bootparms-examples">
+  <title>Examples of boot prompt preseeding</title>
+<para>
+
+Here are some examples of how the boot prompt might look like
+(you will need to adapt this to your needs; also see <xref linkend="boot-screen"/>).
+
+<informalexample><screen>
+# To set French as language and France as country:
+/install.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 initrd=/install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz language=fr country=FR --- quiet
+# To set English as language and Germany as country, and use a German keyboard layout:
+/install.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 initrd=/install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz language=en country=DE locale=en_US.UTF-8 keymap=de --- quiet
+# To install the MATE desktop:
+/install.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 initrd=/install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz desktop=mate-desktop --- quiet
+# To install the web-server task:
+/install.amd/vmlinuz initrd=/install.amd/initrd.gz tasksel:tasksel/first=web-server ---
+</screen></informalexample>
+</para>
+
+  </sect2>
+
   <sect2 id="preseed-dhcp">
   <title>Using a DHCP server to specify preconfiguration files</title>
 <para>
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